This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Hope is a waking dream.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

I don’t do meetings.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Energy begets energy.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Only you can control your future.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.